TILLAMOOK COUNTY
GENWEB PROJECT

GIST CEMETERY,
CLOVERDALE OREGON, ESTABLISHED 1887

This
is only a partial transcription of burials in this cemetery.

SURNAME

NAME

BORN

DIED

COMMENTS

EVANS

Delia
Jane

17
Sep 1856
Jasper Co, IL

23
Oct 1924
Cloverdale, OR

Delia
Jane Evans lived in Illinois where she was married on 16 Jan 1873,
then in Texas at the beginning of her married life. She lived for
a few years near Oland, California in old Colusa County (now Tehama)
where her husband Job Craycraft Foster had a ranch and raised wheat.
In the late 1880s Delia and Job moved to Oregon, in southern Tillamook
County. They owned land near the Little Nestucca River in Meda,
not far from the separate properties of Job's brothers Thomas Hartley
Foster and Francis Samuel "Frank" Foster. Delia and Job
bought a property at Meda. They lived here until their house burned
down. They then bought property near Cloverdale, where they maintained
a dairy herd. She preceded Job in death. Their daughter Myrtle Foster
married a Mr. Gist. When Myrtle's parents died, they were buried
in the Gist Family Cemetery in Tillamook County, Oregon.

Lenore
Eva Bower was the daughter of William Isaac and Emma A. Hichens Bower.
She was married to Frank Charles Zosel in June 1909. Together they
had six children; Ted, Lenore, Marie, Jack, and twins, Verda and Vera.
Parents:
William I Bower (1866 - 1915)
Emma Amelia Bower (1869 - 1941)
Children:
Theodore Zosel (1910 - 1934)*
Burial:
Gist Cemetery

ZOSEL

Theodore

27
Mar 1910
Salem, OR

7
Jul 1934
Salem, OR

Theodore
"Ted" Zosel was born in Salem, Oregon on March 27, 1910
to Frank Charles and Lenore Bower Zosel. He was the oldest of six
children born to Frank and Lenore. As a small child he lost his mother.
He passed away on July 7, 1934 at the age of 24. He is survived by
his father, 3 sisters; Lenore, Marie and Verda, and one brother; Jack.
He was preceded in death by his mother and one sister, Vera.
Family links:
Parents:
Lenore Eva Bower Zosel (1890 - 1917)
Note: Ted's cremains were buried in his mother's grave in Gist Cemetery
in 1952 in a small ceremony attended by his brother Jack and his sister,
Lenore McKinley with her husband, Elgin and daughter, Louise.